Senate caucus sending a msg to the House?

The Senate abruptly broke as it began to take up the House redistricting bill on a motion by Senate Finance Chairman Steve Ogden, R-Bryan.

A couple of senators said they didn’t know why, but another told my colleague, Patti Kilday Hart, that the Senate is sending a message to the House that it’s angry over that chamber’s handling of the revenue legislation known as the fiscal matters bill.

The measure, which would provide funding to help soften proposed budget cuts through accounting maneuvers and other means, has been delayed and changed in the House. One of its provisions, a speed up of tax collections that would yield more than $1 billion, has been stripped out.